Support for Windows and Mac OS.

Brought this up in Gitter and apparently this has had work done on it in a separate branch. (Link that here?). I’ve had multiple times where I wanted to have the amount of information about a Windows or Mac OS platform as the distro module gives but platform.mac_ver and platform.win32_ver are pretty deficient in. This thread is mostly for discussing how this would be done. cc: @nir0s

[sethmlarson]

@FooBarQuaxx Changes to open source projects require contributors willing to give to their free time. Perhaps you could provide a patch?

[nir0s]

Um, it seems more natural to me to return empty for linux_distribution if you’re not on linux and maybe throw a warning. Mapping might create some ambiguity since you’re getting information on a non-linux system in what you’d expect to work only on linux. The reason because of which I like the return empty thing, is because distro tends to return (much like platform’s implementation) empty results when it can’t find something. This behavior would correspond with the natural flow distro’s takes instead of unexpectedly erroring out only in this specific use case.